vii, 365 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Covers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands

Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-351) and index

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